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Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is kn

Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power – power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss. – Paul Davies

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Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply given, elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth, and fixed thereafter. Inquiry into the origin and nature of the laws was not regarded as a proper part of science. – Paul Davies

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Science
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To expect alien technology to be just a few decades ahead of ours is too incredible to be taken seriously. – Paul Davies

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Technology
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Should we find a second form of life right here on our doorstep, we could be confident that life is a truly cosmic phenomenon. If so, there may well be sentient beings somewhere in the galaxy wondering, as do we, if they are not alone in the universe. – Paul Davies

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Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one. – Sydney J. Harris

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The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge. – William Bligh

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge. – Arthur Rimbaud

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If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation. – Thomas Bulfinch

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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance. – Hippocrates

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Knowledge of history frees us to be contemporary. – Lynn White, Jr.

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Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response. – April Greiman

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The last time somebody said, I find I can write much better with a word processor., I replied, They used to say the same thing about drugs. – Roy Blount, Jr.

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